> I think the biggest trouble with changing base would be all the adjustments you'd have to do to your mind and everywhere else. [...]
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> - You'd be saying "If I live to be 84...", and water would boil at 84 degrees Celcius.
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No, in retrospective the boiling point of water would still be at 100°, because a round 100°C in itself was the original definition of the boiling point. :-) See, if we had "always had" a duodecimal system of measurement, then the Celsius degree divisions between ice melting and water vaporizing (from 0°C to 100°C) would simply have been made finer, going by twelths instead of tenths.


> - Year 2000 would be 1455 years ahead - we'd be living in year 11T9.
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> - But would we have Windows 11T8?
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Interesting idea. If this were the standard, then most likely we'd become culturally conditioned to think of eonic ages, such as a Millennium, in terms of 1728 (12 x 144) actual decimal years. And you know what? We'd also have a good excuse to re-embrace the good ole Imperial system of length measurement in inches and feet. I'd dig that part (as long as the stupid "5280 feet to a mile" part gets redefined according to new metrification rules involving units of 12. :-)

Wolfspirit